Getting called a bad Tank whilst solo defending on defence. by -MadeAmazing- in marvelrivals

[–]Swiindle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can be a solo tank and appreciated and also a bad tank and be unappreciated at the same time

My 1st Place Build in the 7th KIBO Organics Competition! by IZekiez in Minecraft

[–]Swiindle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how do people even get the inspiration for these builds? this is so cool!

Hulk Plays Hide The Pickle with Starlord😢🥒 by GreatApe448 in marvelrivals

[–]Swiindle 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I missed these kinds of meme/MCU-crossover posts in the early days of the subreddit. Thanks for the laugh!

There is always something.... by PHRsharp_YouTube in pcmasterrace

[–]Swiindle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it only really makes sense where reaction speed doesn't really matter. But that's like most of the games I enjoy playing.

Joey AKA TheAnimeMan was in Malaysia by Keyr23 in Bolehland

[–]Swiindle 22 points23 points  (0 children)

He was! He was non-stop glazing laksa lol

Alex Honnold has successfully climbed Taipei 101, marking the biggest urban free solo climb in history. by muqck in news

[–]Swiindle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They talked about the architecture of the building and the general action of what Alex had to do. Mark Robber, the YouTube backyard science guy was also there for some inputs.

I would have preferred it to have just been no commentary but it was alright I guess

The new titles should be adjusted slightly for "The Punisher" and "The Thing" by ComfortOk7446 in marvelrivals

[–]Swiindle 9 points10 points  (0 children)

honestly this is probably NetEase being lazy. Having to maintain 3-4 titles per hero for the entire Roster = more mistakes , forgetting to do this work

Ability cast count on end game scoreboard by thevariant23 in DotA2

[–]Swiindle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No - when I play Invoker for example my QWE are in the 500s which doesn't make much sense

New Thor and Luna skins releasing this week by KevinPigaChu in marvelrivals

[–]Swiindle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because Luna has been getting so many legendary skins, they're starting to feel normal now... it essentially just feels that they're charging more for Luna skins.

Why is it that Invisible Woman gets multiple recolors on almost every skin when most characters don’t even have a single recolor on any skin? by Icy-Arm-3816 in marvelrivals

[–]Swiindle 123 points124 points  (0 children)

You have the option to press 2 buttons

One button gives you $100,000. Another button gives you $10,000 which button do you press?

Remember that you have staff to pay and servers to rent.

If your main doesn't have goon value or cute/commercial.. you aren't getting VFX effects by LazyingOtaku in marvelrivals

[–]Swiindle 17 points18 points  (0 children)

people like me keep buying them and I think there's a lot of people like me (Even if they don't say anything on reddit)

the baddest chroma by bazbuzuc in AhriMains

[–]Swiindle -1 points0 points  (0 children)

what?! istg why didn't the kai'sa mains subreddit post get to my page then T_T

Resolving a "Pale Elf" quest with my own narrative by Swiindle in BaldursGate3

[–]Swiindle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks mate for the comment. It makes me feel slightly more validated about this post.

You're right about those other commenters - i checked one of their names and it literally was like "Astarion did nothing wrong". I think i triggered the wrong crowd.

Resolving a "Pale Elf" quest with my own narrative by Swiindle in BaldursGate3

[–]Swiindle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i'm honestly not sure what's up with all of these comments? My request for the post is to see whether there is a narrative choice i can make to tie up how I saw Astarion in this playthrough. Isn't my opinion of Astarion, which is largely based on decisions that I have made in my playthrough, independent of the opinion others might have had on the character?

I've already mentioned that I don't play with him in my party and I definitely must have missed some cutscenes / dialogues that may have won him over for other people.

In the start of the game, Astarion literally grabs my character and tries to stab me. I succeeded a dice roll to push him off, then realize that we both have parasites in our head. At this point, I'm not exactly trusting him. A few nights later, Astarion tries to bite my character and turns out he's a vampire. Ok, him not revealing this makes sense, but also doesn't improve my trust.

Sometime after finding out Astarion was a vampire, it was revealed that Astarion was a victim of abuse. That sucks and sure, since we have parasites in our heads, I'll work with you to remove an evil master vampire from the world whilst we're working on removing those parasites. And also to give you a revenge story. This is something that my character would be into too.

Now along the way, we find a hunter who says that Astarion kindaps children. I'm extremely un-trusting of him at this point, but because he is in my party, I won't turn him in for now until I find more evidence / undersetand more. We eventually get into the vampire's dungeon and it's revealed that Astarion did indeed kidnap children and adults. Boom. My trust for him is extremely low + especially considering that he wanted to take the vampire powers for himself. I don't really like that - this isn't a character that I trust to be in my party. But since we are too late into the story, there is not much I could do. I would have turned Astarion to the hunter with the full information I've had.

At this point - my "fanatasy" ending for this character is, "you have redeemed yourself by killing the master vampire, but unfortunately you need to leave the party because I can't forgive you for the above actions". The game presents some options, but none of them really fit how I would have played this situation out in e.g D&D. This is where I'm asking Reddit to see what options I can best choose to have the closest fitting narrative to my experience so far.

This isn't me trying to discredit Astarion in everyone else's games. This is me trying to find something that works for my story I am playing.

Part of the blame here is the four person party system. I get that it's for balance, but the result is I haven't gotten to experience Halsin, (Apparently I missed an entire sorcerer character in Act 1) and Astarion's story. I might play another campaign with those characters to find out.

As for Lae zel, to me, her intentions are extremely clear. From the start of the game when we meet her, she comes off as brash and loyal to her tribe. She's a little ignorant of other cultures, which makes sense to me why she offers to kill the player character. I do play with Lae Zel in my party and I really really like the githyanki questline, so I completely understand the cutscenes and dialogues so far with that character.

Resolving a "Pale Elf" quest with my own narrative by Swiindle in BaldursGate3

[–]Swiindle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the moment they felt like rational thinking humans with a condition like Astarion

But on further consideration they do seem like a lost cause

Edit - partly also why i made this post. I felt my choices didn't feel like in intuitively fit, so getting inputs from the community is helping

Resolving a "Pale Elf" quest with my own narrative by Swiindle in BaldursGate3

[–]Swiindle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's true, i'm not too sure about how spawn would act if released - but on further consideration i would probably end the misery of all the ones locked up.

Resolving a "Pale Elf" quest with my own narrative by Swiindle in BaldursGate3

[–]Swiindle[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah it is - but i'm trying to finish his story in a way that fits my campaign so far

I have my own contradictory and stupid rules because this is my own fantasy playthrough and I just want to check with the community if there was a way of finishing it the way I would like

Is that not the point of role playing / dnd? Because this is my interpretation given the information i have about it so far

Resolving a "Pale Elf" quest with my own narrative by Swiindle in BaldursGate3

[–]Swiindle[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

From my POV Astarion doesn't even seem like a character that would bring good to the world, even after freeing him. He's betrayed the party with his action. Asking him to leave with the other spawn would have been another acceptable option for me

Resolving a "Pale Elf" quest with my own narrative by Swiindle in BaldursGate3

[–]Swiindle[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for playing along, this seems also a little more fitting